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“I don't really give a f**k about the mainstream. The mainstream doesn't offer me anything. Why would I offer it anything? I love the world I have. I love the sort of subculture that Green Day represents.”

World Giving Offers Green Mainstream Subculture

Author:Mike Dirnt

“What I find on the Internet is fascinating because whole subcultures are developing. And they really are cultures. They have their art forms, their music, and their language. They have their spirituality, they have new names. It's almost like watching colonies of little organisms develop under a petri dish. You can really see these cultures swarming and growing and developing and spawning on the Internet.”

Littles Art Whole Form Culture Spirituality Names Language Growing Internet Developing Fascinating Dishes Organisms Colony Subculture

Author:Jean Houston

“Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.”

World Fields Method Boundaries Professors Academic Organize Topics Pedagogy Subculture

Author:Steven Pinker

“'TableTop' is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn't have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with.”

People Games Huge Independent Creator Educate Vehicle Gaming Subculture

Author:Felicia Day

“Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.”

People Thinking World Giving Hands Seems Jobs Crazy Internet Reasonable Massive Erotic Asian Mobile Subculture

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.”

Certain Caught Profession Mysterious Lightning Spontaneous Jersey Subculture Combustion Arson Spontaneous Combustion

Book:Twelve sharp

Source: Twelve sharp

“Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).”

Band Consequence Musical Nine All Time Phenomenon Inches Nails Subculture

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.”

Kind Whole Might Ego Importance Notion Favors Experiments Eras Frightened 1960s Acid Hangover Frenzy Subculture

Book:Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

“I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships. And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture.”

People Ifs Way Feels Able Culture Loses Creativity Worry Forever Generations Gay Married Institutions Access Alternatives Recognizing Gay People Subculture Gay Culture

Author:Rachel Maddow

“I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it in all its subregions and subcultures both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery.”

Civilization Healthy West Prosperous Scenery Subculture

Book:Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

Source: Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

“The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.”

Knows Reality Next Generations Victory Raised Mediums Primaries Consensus Next Generation Subculture Counterculture

Book:The revolution: quotations from revolution party chairman R.U. Sirius

Source: The revolution: quotations from revolution party chairman R.U. Sirius

“There is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't.”

People Knows Want Persons Stills Different Done Happens Past Strong Music Instruments Guitar Hearing Great Things Realms Very Strong Reassuring Subculture

Author:Steve Vai

“Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.”

Culture Speak Baseball Intense Subculture

Author:Michael Lewis

“I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.”

Trying Addiction Addict Subculture

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.”

Self Culture Belief Self Esteem Expression Integrity Surrender Esteem Preserves Exception Conformity Heroic Self Expression Subculture

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona-a lifestyle. It's a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality.”

“There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.”

People Inspiration Motivation Found Growing Stress Shoes Injury Healthcare Runners Barefoot Ailments Subculture

Author:Christopher McDougall

“Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.”

Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

“Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks”

Rude Fascists Subculture Brainless

Book:The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.”

Thinking World Book Film Guy Natural Comic Transition Fascinated Comic Book Subculture Comic Book Guy

Author:Donal Logue

“I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.”

Feels Christian Music Is Exposed Christian Living Subculture Christian Music

Author:Larry Norman

“I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people’s marginalization from what the art subculture is because if you haven’t crashed the codes, and if you don’t know what it is, you feel it’s a conspiracy against your unintelligence. You feel it’s fraud.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Art Remember Seeing Havens Code Fraud Conspiracy Gallery Subculture Marginalization Conceptual Art

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.”

People Thinking Huge Genre Sci Fi Bizarre Disservice Subculture

Author:Mark Sheppard

“Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then they are calmed by the obscure location and the arrival of their kind. Keep the address to yourself, let the rabble fund it themselves. Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel no so terrible about my various emotional issues.”

“There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.”

Culture New York Unique Subculture

Author:Phil Ramone

“We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.”

Two Book Break My Family Jew Breaking Down Subculture

Author:Ira Glass

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